The Osceola times., 1887-10-22
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN

MISS f.IlaABEIH0A. Il EABOD1 Is HlNCn
Improved in health this autumn, and /.
busy with literary work. -
MRs JOHNSON, superintendent Of
the woman's prison at shcrborn, Mass,
allows no alcoholic liquors to any In.
mate, not even 10 those IN the hospital
Miss IIESEIETTA J, WILLIS, of class
's7, Wellesley College. has been ap-
pointed teacher Of music and Greek at
the Tilden Ladies' Seminary, West
Lebanon, n. H.
Mrs. ANToNErTE BRowN BLACK.
WELL has put her Youngest daughter
to study in the scif,ol of Technology,
Boston. Mrs. Blackwell is herself
graduate Of Obellin.% .%1no
Mss FLorANoE GsEESE. Of Mor.
treal, who saved her father last sum.
mer from being carried over the La.
chine Rapids. has been presented with
the medal OF the Royal Humane So.
ciety Of England.
Mrs. CASE. n real estate agent in
Chicago, makes speciality of renting
furnished houses, and she succeeds ad.
mirably, because women understand
better than men what furnished
house requires, and how TO show it.
THE Providence Journdl says "Ths
question Of the admission Of women to
Brown University win be decided some
other day. The distance to Cambridge
is not great, however. and the oppor
tuuitics for the higher education o.
women increase in many other places
We are little slow here, eventually
we shall catch up with the process
sion. - Harvard 'Annex'--miles'
is thus proposed Rhode Island guide
board.
Miss MARY G. BuRBETTE, sister oi
Bob Bwdettc. the Aumorist, is win
ing approval ia a serious undertaking
She delivers Sunday evening Lectures
on religious topics. and has good
audiences whenever she appears
Miss Burdette is woman of singular
earncstness and enthusiasm. Shs
has been for some years in charge oi
the Baptist Mission Training School in
Chicago, and is Corresponding Secre'
tary of the Baptist Women's Home
Missionary Society. .,rJ
Mrs MARIA 5. PORTER contributed
the following verses on the seventy
eighth birthday Of Oliver Wendell
Holmes: rrf,i5.
"Weye brought the sweetest roses from oui
garden by the sea
with kndlyhirthday greetings, dear 'Autocrat
10 thee
Ana may their lips Of fragrance breathe more
than We can say
OF tender loyal homage that Ills our hearts TO
day
" No smallest leaf of laurel can be woven in ny
crown
The world has paid iis tribute in need OF higs
rCnowu.
God r1pntthee years Of vigor TO sing. from day
to day.
Songs sweetcr than these roses, dear poet
friend, VIC pray a. 80
MRs. JosErH CAREY. whose husband
represents Wyoming Territory in Con-
gress, says that while the presence OF
ladies has put a complete clieck on the
drunkenness and bad language attend
ant on the lallot-boY, it also makes
women very careful about discussing
each others characters and even mii.
linery. "for example, II ] said had
seen Mrs. Blank in the same old BON
net that she wore last year and MIS-.
Blank should hear of the. remark,
doubt ii the lady would ever vote 10Y
my husband again This is trilIns
illustration, but it will show how re-
sponsible women may be made anu
how the suHraee acts as n rreyenti''
10 careless or malicious gossip.
MAKE the case of women our own'
Is any man willing TO resign his own
right 20 vote, and trust his welfare an.
his earnings entirely to the votes VI
others? Suppose any class of ile'
should condesccndingly offer to se''o
for us our capacity Or our calllhs' ~
vote for Us, 10 choose our spnc"
for us, how ridiculously imperu-
ncnt we should consider i'll Yet lev
have the good sense to laugh 81 ",
consummatc impeItinence with WHY" WY
every tar-room brawler, every t'''."
rate scribbler, undertakes 10 settle NV ~.
sphere of the Martineaus ard !he ~
Staels. With what gracious eYDeu
sccpsion little men continue to lsc..~
and preach on ''the female sphervs
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